High crime rates and hard drugs go hand in hand. A few years ago, Chicago forced every deskbound cop back on to its streets. They targeted drug dealers and locked them away - and the crime rate plummeted.

It's unequivocal in its line: drug dealers ruin lives and must be dealt with by the full force of the law.

Oddly, though, when the now-convicted dealers Johnny Blagrove and Cara Burton came to the paper's offices, rather than "waging war" on them, or calling the police to have them "locked away", the paper cut a cheque for thousands of pounds.

The paper could, of course, argue that it was necessary to buy the video to expose Winehouse's drug use, and that it was working for a greater good - but you'd think, then, that the paper would mention how far deep into Murdoch's pockets it dug for the greater good. Instead, while the New York Times and the Mail happily handed drug dealers fifty thousand pounds, the paper is coy about its own role. In fact, it neglects to mention paying at all:

The pair handed the footage to The Sun but the paper later passed it to police.